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Seven students will be awarded PhD degrees on May 19, 2021, from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK), an innovative doctoral program that prepares the next generation of basic laboratory scientists to work in research areas related to human disease with a focus on cancer.
… Monday, May 17, 2021 Seven students will be awarded PhD degrees on May 19, 2021, from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) , an innovative doctoral program that prepares the next generation of basic laboratory scientists to work in research areas related to human
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces the following awards and appointments.
… Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Victoria Blinder Awarded Funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Victoria Blinder, MD, FASCO Victoria Blinder, MD, FASCO , medical oncologist, was awarded funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) on behalf of the Alliance NCTN
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Read an interview with Sloan Kettering Institute Computational and Systems Biology Chair Dana Pe'er.
… Friday, January 1, 2021 Dana Pe’er is Chair of the Computational and Systems Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI). She came to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2016, with the goal of bringing her mathematical and computational expertise to bear on the problem of cancer. An
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Get to know Ana Silveira, a computational biology postdoctoral fellow in the Sloan Kettering Institute.
… Thursday, March 26, 2020 Summary As part of Women’s History Month, we are profiling some of MSK’s star female graduate students and postdoctoral fellows training to be leaders in their fields. Ana Silveira is a postdoctoral fellow in the Chodera lab in the Sloan Kettering Institute. When you look back
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Cassidy Cobbs is many things: a valued colleague who works at the Sloan Kettering Institute; a doting parent to a pit bull named Mando; a beloved sibling; and a passionate baseball fan, who memorized the stats of former player, Ryne Sandberg, at the age of 5. What Cassidy is not is someone who identifies as either a man or a woman.
… Friday, March 31, 2023 Cassidy Cobbs is many things — A valued colleague and employee who works at the Sloan Kettering Institute — the basic and translational research arm of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). A doting parent to a pit bull named Mando. A beloved sibling. And a passionate
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Reducing the radiation therapy dose currently used to treat high-risk neuroblastoma in children is possible, according to the promising results from our recent prospective trial.
… Monday, May 13, 2019 Reducing the radiation therapy dose currently used to treat high-risk neuroblastoma in children is possible, according to the promising results from our recent prospective trial, meaning reduced toxicities for many of these young patients. Our study, published in the International
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Learn how a second opinion at a highly specialized cancer center such as MSK can lead to treatment that costs less and improves quality of life and survival.
… Tuesday, January 20, 2026 Many people who get a second opinion from highly specialized cancer experts may benefit from treatment that costs less, is less invasive, and improves quality of life and survival, according to new research conducted at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). The study
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For RuthAnn (“Ruthy”) Gordon, Director of Clinical Trials Nursing, some of the best days are when the FDA approves a drug from a clinical trial that she worked on. It’s happened to her four times.
… Monday, May 9, 2022 Clinical trials are research studies that test new drugs and therapies. MSK runs one of the largest clinical trials programs for cancer in the country — at any time, hundreds of clinical trials are underway at MSK locations in New York City and across the regional care network. Patients
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Cards are a longstanding Valentine’s tradition — and The Scarlett Fund, with help from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center employees, is using cards to make sure that patients and staff will be feeling the love for a long time to come.
… Tuesday, February 15, 2022 Jason holding a card Jason Giani, a patient of Jia Li at MSK Commack, received about 100 cards. Elizabeth Rodriguez, Diane Reidy, and Jennifer Tota posing with cards Elizabeth Rodriguez (left), Diane Reidy-Lagunes (center), and Jennifer Tota delivered cards to patients and
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Gift from Jamie C. Nicholls and O. Francis Biondi will support MSK’s commitment to disparities research, expanded access to cancer care for underserved communities, and training diverse leaders in oncology.
… Monday, February 8, 2021 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) today announced the newly established Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity . This permanently endowed chair is dedicated to improving outcomes for patients from medically underserved communities and building a base of knowledge